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Date:      Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:22:14 +0000
From:      Lorenzo Salvadore <phascolarctos@protonmail.ch>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New categories: both virtual and non virtual
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------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, June 30th, 2022 at 16:34, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org=
> wrote:


>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> with pkg 1.18, it is easier to add new catagories which and reduce the im=
pact
> in people as we can query all the categories virtual or not.
>
> Now that this is done, I would like to add the following new categories. =
Not
> that I want to address the current isssue here which is the desktop world=
 on
> FreeBSD is not anymore a x11 only world, and the categories do not reflec=
t
> that reality anymore.
>
> Virtual:
> - wayland
>
> Non Virtual:
> - ui-toolkits (all UI toolkits should be moved here)
> - desktop (all wayland compositors, all apps desktop oriented which does =
not
> fit in any other catagories).
> - desktop-libs (all libraries not ui-toolkit which are necessary for the
> desktops)
> - fonts (fonts and related libraries)
>
>
> For all the x11 related ports which will be moved there will they will ke=
ep
> a x11* virtual category to it is still queryable that way if it makes sen=
ce
>
> For example if we move libinput from x11/libinput to desktop/libinput the=
n the
> CATEGORIES=3D x11 will become CATEGORIES=3D desktop-libs x11
>
> meaning:
> pkg info desktop-libs/libinput will match the same package as x11/libinpu=
t

Excellent idea! I agree that our categories need improvements in the deskto=
p world.
Thanks for your work with pkg 1.18.

Lorenzo Salvadore



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